Saturday, November 22, 2014

Blog Tour: Saving Poughkeepsie by Debra Anastasia

Saving Poughkeepsie

Debra Anastasia

Beckett
Taylor’s quest to be a better man has brought Eve Hartt back into his
life, but sometimes it feels like they’re bound together with barbed
wire. Though he longs to love her without causing pain, the wreckage of
their past continues to crash down around them.

Yet with the
help of this brothers—and for his brothers—Beckett won’t stop trying.
He’s determined to make them all a family, to make a life they want to
live, and to make Poughkeepsie a place that’s safe to live it.

He
can feel their futures balanced precariously on his shoulders: Blake
and Livia and their children, Cole and Kyle and the new baby they’ve
just brought home, and Eve…always Eve. He wants their dreams to be real.
But murderers don’t just get Happily Ever After handed to them. They
have to wrench it away from Satan himself.

Good thing Beckett is prepared to do just that. After all, saving Poughkeepsie is the only way his story ends.

Prepare
your heart and your head for a wild ride in this final installment of
the Poughkeepsie Brotherhood series. Debra Anastasia does not disappoint
as she weaves the last chapter of a story that blends true love,
turbulent emotions, and life’s harsh realities into an uplifting tale
that calls to the good in each of us.

4.5 Star Review by Jennifer Hagen

One of my all-time favorite books is Poughkeepsie.There is something about these 3 men that
draw me to them and I simply cannot get enough of their story.Becket, Blake, and Cole were boys of the
foster system,each having their own
demons to overcome.Blake has always
been the one my heart swells for the most.Blake was homeless, but now he is making another trip to Disney World
with his wife, Livia, and their 2 children. Whatever assumptions I previously had that
Blake had a dissociative disorder when I first met him in Poughkeepsie is long
gone.From the very beginning of this
book, I became emotional reading about Blake and how happy he is.Every single time I get a glimpse into his
life and think back to what he has overcome, it brings tears to my eyes.Every.Single.Time.

It was a simple
morning – the kind of simple morning Blake could hardly have dreamed of years
before, when he spent his days at the train station and his nights in his
handmade shelters in the woods, avoiding the sun at all costs.How far he’d come.

The majority of the book focuses on Beckett and Eve.Beckett is still a bad-ass letting nothing or
nobody stand in his way, but yet he has a heart of gold when it comes to his 2
“brothers.”Beckett had been absent from
Poughkeepsie for 6 years and now upon his return he wants to make it a safe
place for his brothers and their families to reside.Being close to Beckett means that you are
likely to be used, tortured or killed in order to get to Beckett.Beckett is ready to change his game plan as
he wants his brothers to not have to look over their shoulders in the future.Instead of being the instigator of drugs,
weapons and pimps, he is changing his course and cleaning up the town.He is turning his former douchebags into
construction workers and buying up properties to use for low-income
housing.His heart means well, but the way he goes
about doing things probably still needs a little polishing.He is trying his hardest to do things the
legal way.

Eve and Beckett are still going strong.On the days that the entire group gathers, it
is difficult for her to see the joy everybody receives from their children
knowing that she will never be able to experience holding her own biological
child.Eve’s chance at having children
was taken away when she was 19 years old.For being a “killer” she has the mothering instinct and Beckett would do
anything to make certain that someday she will rock her own child.Beckett stumbles upon a secret that may help
Eve achieve her dream.

He waited as he
handed her hope.After all the death
he’d forced upon her, now he could offer her life.

“Wow,” was all she
had to say.

Eve and Beckett continue to take on the source of
corruption in their plan to turn Poughkeepsie into a safe place and their plans
are met with death and destruction.People close to them will not survive the onslaught of retaliation.There is a war raging in their town, and
Beckett is not going to let it go down without a fight.

“Our goal is this
and this only:Saving Poughkeepsie.”

If you thought Beckett was the
king of verbal slaying, I would say that Ryan Morales can give him a run for
his money.Of course, Ryan’s heart is
still hurting from the dismissal Eve has given him and hemay be
slightly bitter towards Beckett.The
name calling between Beckett and Ryan is quite vivid and imaginative.

Ms. Anastasia writes with detail and brings the reader
into her world.There is one scene in
particular with Blake and Livia that I can’t stop thinking about.Ms. Anastasia brought normal everyday sounds
and sights into a beautiful love scene.I will never look at dust particles floating through the air again in
the same way.

This was a perfect way to say goodbye to these dear
brothers that I have loved for years.

Cole, Blake, and
Beckett wrapped their arms in a handshake and then together cut the ribbon on a
whole new chapter ahead.

EXCERPT

“I’m not
worried about tomorrow. I’m worried about right now, with you, under this
Christmas tree.” Blake supported her neck as he laid her on the floor.

Livia
turned her head. “You’d better convince me. So far you’ve talked about the dog
going to the bathroom, trash, and dirtiness.”

Blake
kissed her jaw and turned her head gently, kissing her mouth as she bit her
lips together.

“Can’t I
just convince you with my manly ways?” He wiggled his eyebrows.

He could,
of course, do just that—but she shook her head. She loved the playful sparkle
in his green eyes. His five o’clock shadow just made him more handsome, framing
his kissable lips with scruff.

“Okay.”
He put his fingers at the bottom of her shirt, lifting it gently so he could
circle her belly button with his index finger. “You’re the sexiest, most
beautiful woman on this planet. So sexy, in fact, that I had to have you. I had
to make you bear my children because my universe and yours had to be combined.
Everything I’ve ever been needed to be buried inside of you, so deep, so full
of love that we created life. Twice.”

He lifted
her shirt and kissed the tops of her breasts, whispering his devotion into her
skin. “And it’s never enough. Unless I can hear you coming, I can’t think of
anything else. All day every day. For years now. You’re that powerful, Livia.
This. Us. It’s so intense that years haven’t cured me. I can’t stop wanting to
make love to you.”

“Wow.”
Livia smiled and pulled his face back to hers, kissing him and effectively
stopping his beautiful words.